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Woot! New hardware and training!

So the last company I was with never wanted to order new equipment, nor provide a workstation that I could putz around with, nor provide any training. Apparently, their world revolves around web-training or powerpoint training centered on Office 2003. Yeah, right, whatever...

I'm now at Hilton Grand Vacations (of the Paris variety, hehe) as their unix administrator and my first project was to migrate all of their Apache 2 web services off of the MAC OSX (yeah I know) servers. There's six total and for the first time ever, I had these guys in a meeting (you know the types, the ones who's paygrade is about 9x more than yours) looking at me saying "This is what we want...four web servers, four app servers, get what you think fits". All of this is going behind a F5-BigIP and I got to go nuts on the Sun site. It was like Christmas shopping all over with the company credit card!

I'm super pumped about this...the past three companies I've been with haven't ever even considered giving any real training or any workstation that's unix-based. It's always been "read a book" and "Oh, you need a workstation...ok, here's your Windows XP Pro station". Here I can actually work on a station that I configured and bought and then get certified, which is my plan.
Woohoo!

We the willing, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do just about anything with almost nothing.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson

Thanks Korp! Yeah, I got to modify the training a little bit and now I'm also getting both practice exams as well as going ahead to pay for the actual certification test (good for one year). This way, I won't miss out on anything and I don't have to go back to them and ask for more money on it.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do just about anything with almost nothing.